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profits must be as carefully attended to as 



the large ones, and no paid labour will do The financial 



aspect 



that. Besides fortunes are not now made 

 agriculturally, and any one going in for dairy- 

 ing expecting otherwise would do well to 

 leave it alone, before he or she is disap- 

 pointed. But there are numbers of occupiers 

 of land on a small scale who are making an 

 honest livelihood under conditions far happier 

 and more congenial than if their lot were cast 

 in the heart of some great town. 



It is not enough to be a dweller in the 

 town to become rich or famous, as so many 

 of the thousands who rush thither seem to 

 think. Of a thousand persons, perhaps one 

 makes a fortune, while the other 999 strive 

 and struggle in bitterest competition with 

 each other, merely for the livelihood which 

 they get at the expense of their own health 

 and happiness, or at the expense of those 

 who come after them. City life under these 

 circumstances, as it is led by millions of our 

 people, is degrading and demoralising to a 



